01th Dec 2011 / 1 Comment »

The spirit of Christmas

Probably one of the most creative days of the year is Christmas time, so let's not forget the importance of all these little details that make your imagination playful. To our creativity, and its transposition in reality were identified and directed towards the desired results, we need to feel loved and recognized. The most important rule of the festive ambiance is giving, give something yours - because it has everlasting stamp. Your Christmas role from year to year change - evolve, as a person as an artist. Make something for your community, dearest, closest in full color! Create something that will have only your signature and be recognized and highly humane, try to outdo yourself. Christmas spirit is all about family - sources of inspiration are all around us, so amplify your senses!

Let the Christmas joy be with you!

20th Oct 2011 / 1 Comment »

Imagine ~ Create ~ Publish!

First, you must be open for new ideas! A good story or product needs to have a strong backround. As an artist perspective in creative process is different from 'the final impression'. Your idea is in front of you, but you wondering how to make it real? Very simple, be opened for a NEW thinking: 1. make yourself comfortable (make something you like) 2. put everything on paper 3. observe your 'internal thinking' 4. look at magazines 5. try to create something interesting from all that 6. publish it at all possible places (invest in a web page, social marketing, professional photographs, brochures-flyers and of course personal contacts), and very soon you will see whether your idea is successful or not! GOOD LUCK

1st Apr 2011 / 1 Comment »

What would we do without the sun?

It's power is so immense and wide reaching... It is no wonder that our brains are "hot-wired" to release good feeling endorphins whenever the sun is out. This can recharge an artist's creative energy just like the changing season. The effect of the sun is not just imaginary or illusory; it is very real and can be scientifically proven - secretion of endorphins which provide us with an instantaneous feel-good factor. No wonder we feel happy when the sun is shining.

When you hear the phrase "happiness comes from within" what does it mean to you? Everything is open to individual interpretation, and this saying is no different. Happiness comes from feeling content where you are, from accepting that you are in the right place at the right time, or perhaps happiness comes from being able to enjoy the moment, to be "in the now". Happiness comes from holding your face up towards the sun and feeling its warmth upon your skin, or happiness can come from those endorphins as they are released.

There are many, many things which can provide happiness, so long as you allow them the environment in which to dwell. This proviso is at the heart of why happiness truly comes from within. You have to allow yourself to be happy to enable happiness to enter your life. If you do not look out of the window to watch the sunrise you will not see it, or if you do not open your ears to the dawn chorus you will not hear it. Happiness does come from within, but once it does come, it can come to you from everywhere and everything. Since spring makes things new, the artist's can get a new perspective, as well.

The best way to find new and exciting subjects this season is to keep an open mind and an eye for the beauty that the Spring provides.

1st Oct 2010 / 2 Comments »

Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby something new is created which has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways. Scholarly interest in creativity ranges widely: the mental and neurological processes associated with creative activity; the relationship between personality type and creative ability; the relationship between creativity and intelligence, learning and mental health; and ways of fostering creativity through training and technology.

Don't listen to feedback, keep following your own path. The problem with asking for feedback is invariably the feedback will be given infused with that person's preconceived notions of what the outcome should be. Others will unconsciously push you in a direction that they see as best. This is done with good intentions; however, it actually hurts your internal creativity. Now this is different than sharing your work--by all means share, but listening to feedback is not a good decision if you want to truly find your own path of creative self-expression. Once you're finished with your creative work, whatever it may be, then you can listen to feedback. Just don't let criticism (even the constructive type) stifle your creativity during the creative process. Keep in mind that people will generally display resistance to your idea, because good ideas change the existing dynamic, and people, for the most part, like things the way they are. When you present something that challenges the status quo, many people (friends, relatives, co-workers) will feel threatened.

The more limited your set of tools is, the more creative the output will be. Having a limited set of vital tools forces creativity and really challenges you to use what you have to produce the desired results. As a byproduct, you'll get incredibly good with that small set of tools and refine your use of them to a point you can literally do anything you like with them. You'll be far sharper than someone who merely dabbles with a larger set of tools. Ignore trends. If you want to be truly creative, you absolutely must ignore trends. Block them out-pay zero attention to them. Trends are the polar opposite of creativity. In many forms of art (especially music) the masses of artists are following whatever the hot trends set forth are. Then there is the other, smaller group of artists that are pursuing their own path and not really paying attention to external trends in their form of art of choice. There is certainly more money, fame and instant notoriety for following trends, but most of what is popular is hardly creative. If you want to make something truly unique, trends are irrelevant. Looking inside yourself is where you will discover a greater wealth of creativity than available in any hot trend. Here are some more suggestions for insulating yourself from trends:

Don't watch TV, don't listen to the radio, and remove the vapid elements of popular culture from your life.These things aren't bad for you in moderation, but they are great at normalizing your thoughts with the rest of society, and do not foster true internal creativity. Realize everything that you experience, every piece of content you consume plays a role in shaping your personality, even if at a subconscious level. It is all influence one way or another. You are in many ways a product of your experiences and stimulus. In one sentence, your creative output can be thought of simply as a personal interpretation of external stimulus. The best part about this is you get to control the input. Don't try and fit into a genre. Actively trying to fit your art or work into a genre is severely limiting and a detriment to its quality, if creativity is desired. Don't try and write for a genre, don't try to follow trends within a genre, in fact don't even consider genre when working. Labeling it in a genre is a necessary evil for people to be able to find your work, and you will probably have to do this-but it shouldn't be something that crosses your mind when trying to work. Genres, styles and methods don't matter for creativity and originality. Spend a lot of time alone. You don't have to be anti-social, but many people find their creativity really starts to open up when they are removed from others and able to have quiet focus for their creative work.

1st Sep 2010 / 2 Comments »

A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (Art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts (Twitter). "Microblogging" is a passive broadcast medium in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically much smaller, in both actual size and aggregate file size. A microblog entry could consist of nothing but a short sentence fragment, an image or embedded video. As with traditional blogging, microbloggers post about topics ranging from the simple, such as "what I'm doing right now," to the thematic, such as "sports cars." Commercial microblogs also exist, to promote websites, services and/or products, and to promote collaboration within an organisation. Some microblogging services offer features such as privacy settings, which allow users to control who can read their microblogs, or alternative ways of publishing entries besides the web-based interface. These may include text messaging, instant messaging, E-mail, or digital audio. The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999. Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used "blog" as both a noun and verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog") and devised the term "blogger" in connection with Pyra Labs' Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.